Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1: A Second-Gen Android Tablet
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Page 1:Samsung's Second-Generation Galaxy Tab
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Page 2:Meet Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1
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Page 3:TouchWiz UX: Skinning Honeycomb
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Page 4:Keyboard Enhancements
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Page 5:Synchronizing And USB Debugging
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Page 6:GPU Performance: Tegra 2
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Page 7:Display Quality: Color Gamut
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Page 8:Display Quality: Black And White Uniformity
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Page 9:Camera Quality
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Page 10:Benchmark Results: Real-World
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Page 11:Battery Life And Recharge Time
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Page 12:Wireless Performance
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Page 13:Is Samsung's Second-Gen Galaxy A Winner?
Battery Life And Recharge Time
Battery Life
Testing a tablet’s battery life tends to be highly variable unless you control the entire experience from beginning to end. Cumulatively, touch gestures don’t have a great impact on battery life. The biggest factors are CPU/GPU processing, screen brightness, volume, and Wi-Fi use. In order to accurately measure battery life, I coded a script that automatically plays MP3s at 50% volume while browsing different Wikipedia pages every 12 minutes. This benchmark is probably overkill, but it gives you an idea of a worst-case scenario.


Recharge Time


Charging times are a double-edged sword. Ideally, you want a nice slow charge so that your battery lasts more than a few hundred cycles. Fast charge times keep you away from the wall socket longer, but in the long run, they cut down on the health of the battery. Usually, the rate of charge starts to slow down somewhere in the 80% to 95% range, which is why the charging time from 0% to 10% is faster than 90% to 100%.
This is the Galaxy Tab 10.1's Achilles' heel. If the battery is completely drained, it almost takes a quarter of a day to get it fully charged again. That could be a problem for more hurried road warriors.
- Samsung's Second-Generation Galaxy Tab
- Meet Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1
- TouchWiz UX: Skinning Honeycomb
- Keyboard Enhancements
- Synchronizing And USB Debugging
- GPU Performance: Tegra 2
- Display Quality: Color Gamut
- Display Quality: Black And White Uniformity
- Camera Quality
- Benchmark Results: Real-World
- Battery Life And Recharge Time
- Wireless Performance
- Is Samsung's Second-Gen Galaxy A Winner?
Or am I missing something here?
But the author is right: if there is one reason Apple should sue Samsung, it's for copying the price structure of the iPad!
The 10.1 is still too slow for certain browsing. Flash is good as long as you don't want to rewind or fast forward through it. It sometimes slows down when I try typing also.
Since Apple produces both hardware and software, they can optimize their OS for the exact hardware they put out.
After trying the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, I would say it's just a little too immature still. A good year or two and tablets will be perfect for browsing, gaming, and some other tasks while also being lightweight and easy to use even compared to laptops.
-Full USB port for mouse, keyboard, portable hard disks/thumb drives, cameras
-Overclocked and stable dual core CPU @ 1.504 Ghz (big change in performance)
-Customizable and open operating system (and it's going to get better with ICS)
-Honeycomb 3.2
-Netflix and Hulu working
-Mount drives from Linux, Windows, and OSX
-Websites with Flash that look the same as on a PC browser (now theres a concept)
-Wide screen 16:9
-5MP rear camera + front facing camera.
-HDMI out
-Charges back up in 1hr
i think it's supposed to be SGX543MP2?
The iPad wasn't the first tablet. They had been around for years before the iPad. Depending on what you're using for the definition of a tablet you could even say they were made as far back as in the 80's. We'll just say 2001 for functionality sake. iPad just crossed a tablet with the useful qaulities and good looks of an iPhone and marketed it right. I thought these articles were supposed to be written by techies? Not even gonna read the rest now.
First, it states that Android does no multitasking, that's simply wrong. What Android doesn't allow is to have multiple apps showing at the same time on the screen, you can have an app doing some long job while you work on another, if that's not multitasking I don't know what is.
Second, one paragraph later it tells the Galaxy task killer doesn't remove the thumbnail from the "multitasking switcher" (didn't the reviewer just said Android does no multitasking?). That switch is really an "app history" switcher rather than a multitask switcher, because even if the app is no longer in memory Android will reopen it for you, so no reason for Touchwiz task killer to remove the thumbnail from it.
It is a good review, but I wish the reviewer had done his research on some topics like this one before alienating readers with wrong information.
This is by no way a "second generation" android tablet.
It still has the Tegra 2 and the specs are identical to the other big names (Acer, Asus and the likes) and the performance is the same!
No, the first "second gen" android tablet will probably be when the Asus transformer 2 is released.
Or maybe ZTE will beat them all with the first Tegra 3 based (quad-core)tablet:
http://www.androidauthority.com/zte-quad-core-tablet-leaks-26228/
I can browse my local Lan network with ease, copy files across the network, bridge any device to anything else (beam a youtube video from my 3g or wifi, via wifi, to my tv, etc)
all feature which I can get for free from the market place.
Not to mention standard USB and SD card support
I'll admit the iPad has a nice interface and in general is a good tablet, but apple's death grip on what the developers are allowed to publish crushes the iPads capabilities... It could do so much more, and that's where the android market shines.
Here is what you are missing. All of these are the same thing:
One tenth of an inch
1/10 inch
0.1 inch
Is that really so hard to believe?
I always hold my 16:10 (why not 8:5?) eeePad Transformer in portrait mode. What's so hard about it? Or am I just weird?